Books written by Carol Mavor
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Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott
... the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who, not coincidentally, was also the nephew of Richard Doyle, the great fairy illustrator of the immensely popular In Fairyland (1870). (Doyle also used to play cricket with Barrie, perhaps the most ...
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Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour
In an exploration of one book and three films, themes including loss, regret, violence, and history are discussed in terms of the feeling of the colors black and blue.
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Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, "maid of all work", pictured in masquerade - Carol Mavor addresses the erotic possibilities of these images ...
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Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
An intimate look into three Victorian photo-settings, Pleasures Taken considers questions of loss and sexuality as they are raised by some of the most compelling and often misrepresented photographs of...
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Like a Lake: A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography
Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico’s midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns.
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Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
( But the contemporary artist Beverly Semmes does , when she plays out her 1950s inspired ironic subversion of feminine deaesthetics with House- dress ; fig . 44 ) . In contrast to Campion's heroine - who is known as a silent woman yet ...
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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour
Carol Mavor's engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the reader from the blue of a newborn baby's eyes to Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof Ki slowski to the ...